Recently, several advanced treatment strategies and novel therapeutics- immunotherapy for cancer or stem cell therapies for congenital diseases- have been approved by various state legal authorities. Moreover, several guidelines are established and updated regularly by the concerned medical associations, but the implementation of these advanced therapies has been an area of major concern. What worsens the situation is that some of the real-life evidence do not even support the efficacy and safety of such therapeutics.
However, techniques like stem cell banking and stem cell therapy have been overhyped and used for monetary gains by so-called healthcare professionals and providers. How to deal with doctors who fool patients in the name of advanced therapeutics?
